Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-08

i ihe man behind the bar is as good as
i u man that votes for the man behind
Itheb bar.
i opeka, Kas., has seventeen saloon
4 Keepers, but they are all in jail, and
Sui prohibition don't prohibit"
i 1t is high time we ceased to receive
bounty on our boys, by giving them up
| to the saloon influences for certain
sun of money.
The anti-sumptuary plank was stri-
i'm out of the state platform which
was adopted at the Democratic conven-
ton held recently in Louisville, Ky.
If you pray for the coming of Gods
kingdom snd sign petition for sa-
loon, you are either ignorant of the
character OF the kingdom and blind to
the effects Of the saloon, or else-a hy-
pocrite in one or the other of the petit
tions.-Golden Era.
How one saloon can be worse than an
oth Ter is mystery, we cannot solve, any
mpre than we can understand how one
murderer can be worse than another
Closing the small saloons and leaving
the large guided ones open, looks to us
like hanging a man who has killed only
one man, and letting another man, who
has killed dozens, go free.
The Union Signal gives the follow
inf as the totol amount of which the
legalized liquor traffic robs the people
OF the United States annually:
The drink bill -. $9OO,OOO,OO0
Falue Of time wasted
th1pugh the effects Of drink 900, OOO,OCD
Ppid to support paupers,
criminals, etc. 6OO,O00,0O0
Vblue Of time wasted in
non productive work by men
IN the traffic and officials en-
gagdl in caring for it's vic
c4lllOl 4. ..1,UUU,ONU,UNU
Vdue Of time lost to socie-
ty by premature death Of 10O,-
600 annually ..,..... =. .6OO,OOOOOO
Total. .$4,OOO,OO0,OOO
D.. Talmage on high-license proposes
that murder be llensed. The present
lSw does not do. Many persons having
committed murder all over the land are
going scot free. The only way you will
ever put an end to murder in this coun-
try is by high license; put few men to
manage the whole business. This COM
mon herd of assassins who do the work
with car-hooks and dull knives and
paris green must be put down, and let
few experts who can do the thing
without pain and by chloroform or
flash of bulldog revolvers can gently
put the victim out of his earthly mis-
fortunes = let them have all the bust
ness. Of course, that license ought to
be as high as 5000, because the per-
quisites of gold watches, and money
safes, and plethoric poctet books would
| soon pay the high-license and leave a
handsome sum for net profit. You see
at a glance, all irony aside, that if rum
selling is right, we all ought to have
the privilege Of engaging in it, and if it
be wrong, $4,000, 900 paid down in hard
cash as a yearly license ought to pur-
l ob,ca M i,,,p,,,pif1,
! John Walruff, the brewer Of Law
renee, Kan, who has for SO long detied
and disobeyed the laws Of the state,
and who was lately convicted and put
in jail, describes his sufferings in let
! ter to the United States Brewers Con-
! vention, recently held at Baltimore: 81
have fought the fanatics for six long
years. IS Since January have quit
|selling in Kansas and opened a depot
| in Kansas City, Missouri, where l ship
my beer and have to find q sale from
there. Our last legislature has made
the law much stricter, and it will be
| very hard to sell any beer hereafter in
Kansas. There is only one hope left for
me: My friends at home, with the as
slstance Of my attorneys, are working
on the attorney general to induce him
to enter a role frosc3nt in our cases, on
the ground that we have actually re-
moved our business out Of the state
Whether my friends will succeed, it is
hard to tell. The governor has been
seen and he was requested to commute
the imprisonment if 1 would plead
guilty and pay the fine, but the pressure
is so great that he does not dare to do
it. IT the arrangement with. the attor-
ney general fails, / don't know what to
do. 1t looks to me as it had to aban-
don house and home, and leave every
thing to the mercy of my prosecutors"
Prohibition don't prohibit!-ED.]
Itnow turns out that there is nothing
in the stir which has been made with
reference to a United States statute al
fecting recent marriages in Dakota
Just the same, some enterprising clerk
in Gen. CampbelPs office, at 4ankton
has been turning an honest penny by